The Market
Speed Dealing: How to transact in the tightest of time frames
With the pre-election stand-off morphing into a post-election face-off, those buyers who are able to move quickly will typically be the ones snaffling up all the best instructions.
Mansion Mayhem: Six of the best post-election instructions
It could have been a very different story, but Friday's unexpected result already appears to have triggered a flurry of trophy-level instructions across the country.
Holland Park house ‘earns £130 an hour’ since 2007
If this stonker in Holland Park goes for anything near its £13m asking price, someone's worked out it will have "earned" its owner around £130 an hour since it last sold back in 2007.
Sole Agent: Flat above a fish and chip shop asks £5m
What could have been one of the punchiest asking prices of recent times has actually turned out to be a pretty good deal, considering the restaurant in question is actually Scott's of Mayfair...
Block, Stock & Quarrel: What happens when tenants fall out?
It is not uncommon for apartment blocks to be owned by the tenants living there, but what happens when they fundamentally disagree on how the building is being run?
Flight Moves: A buyer’s natural progression from London to the country
Sam McArdle & Claire Owen of The Buying Solution narrate a well-worn path followed by generations of Londoners; from a Royal Borough party pad to a Home Counties idyll...
Not a new housing minister: Brandon Lewis keeps housing role
UPDATE: It turns out that Mark Francois' appointment to Housing Mininster was all just a bit of mix-up. Francois' name was mistakenly put up on the DCLG website...
Day Of The Deals: Tory triumph triggers £200m sales surge in London
Friday 8th May 2015 has gone down alongside the Stamp Duty Stampede of 2014 as one of the most extraordinary days in prime resi history.
Friday's deals included the £2.
West African buyers hone in on Mayfair
Harrods Estates has reported a surge in West African buyers looking to snap up prime pied-à-terres in London's Mayfair.
The Paris Market: Conditions improve for overseas buyers
The weakened Euro, abolition of some punitive taxes on non-resident owners and the continued fall in property prices have improved conditions for overseas buyers in the Paris property market, reports Laurent…
Government should charge for an enhanced planning services – BPF
The British Property Federation thinks that planners should follow the lead of Historic England, and introduce a charging system for enhanced planning services.
PCL stalwarts show some stamina as Outer Prime runs out of puff
Prime Central London has started to outperform Outer Prime parts of the capital for the first time since June 2013, according to some new stats from the Marsh & Parsons camp.